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PS 1.7.2.4 Back End Page take 5 minutes to Load (modules, product save, shipping, ...) #11186

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matteolavaggi opened this issue Oct 30, 2018 · 39 comments
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1.7.x Branch BO Category: Back Office Can't reproduce Resolution: issue closed because cannot be reproduced Modules catalog Label: Which BO under menu is concerned Performance Label: Which BO under menu is concerned
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@matteolavaggi
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Describe the bug
When try to open module manage page in back office it take 5 minutes to load.
If you try to access direct module configuration page it work great.
The same extra long tame will take place on product save , shipping service page so its a controller problem of the backend.

Every operation made by direct url (example open shipping agent with direct url and id) work great.

Product save with 3rd parts module like import or massive edit work amazing fast.

Problem is damn prestashop buggy controller of the backend.

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Steps to reproduce the behavior:

  1. Open module manage page
    or
  2. edit and try to save a product
    or
  3. try to open carrier page
    or
  4. try to open advance setting > information page

There is no error in web server or php log in both scenario.

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INFORMAZIONI DI CONFIGURAZIONE
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INFORMAZIONI SUL SERVER
Informazioni sul server: Linux #163-Ubuntu SMP Mon Sep 24 13:14:43 UTC 2018 x86_64

Versione software del server: Apache/2.4.33 (Ubuntu)

Versione di PHP: 7.0.32-2+ubuntu16.04.1+deb.sury.org+1

Limite di memoria: 4G

Tempo di esecuzione massimo: 6000

Dimensione Max. dei file da caricare: 200M

Modulo PageSpeed per Apache installato (mod_instaweb)

INFORMAZIONI DATATBASE
Versione MySQL: 5.7.21-20

Server MySQL: 127.0.0.1

Nome MySQL: Prestashop_1

Utente MySQL: prestashop

Prefisso delle tabelle: ps_

Motore MySQL: InnoDB

Driver MySQL: DbPDO

INFORMAZIONI DEL NEGOZIO
Versione di PrestaShop: 1.7.2.4

URL negozio:

Tema attualmente utilizzato: classic

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Hi @matteolavaggi,

Could you please try to disable the gamification module, clear cache, check & feedback.
Thanks!

@khouloudbelguith khouloudbelguith added BO Category: Back Office NMI Status: issue needs more information Performance Label: Which BO under menu is concerned labels Oct 30, 2018
@matteolavaggi
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Hi dear i've renamed the gamificaton folder to off.gamification just week ago with no improvement on functionality , you mean this?

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Hi @matteolavaggi,

We need to retrieve the PHP error log and the debug mode report in order to find out what's wrong.
Don't you know how to get this information? Please read the following article:
http://build.prestashop.com/howtos/misc/how-to-create-bug-report/

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Hi, we have provided information about version and server. We dont get any php / apache error in the error log , and debug mode in backend dont print error, so how we can send to you usefull information? we get a timeout error after 4 minutes from proxy so its not easy to debug the problem, any idea to get more information usefull for you?

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ghost commented Oct 30, 2018

There also is function to take Your PrestShop account avatar from Prestashop.com... Please look deep into browser console and resource requests - this might help You with this lag/performance issue.

@khouloudbelguith
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Hi @PrestaShark,

Is it the issue that you described: #11145?
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@matteolavaggi
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matteolavaggi commented Oct 30, 2018

There is no information on browser console that can help, simply it take 5 min of TTFB.

@khouloudbelguith my login email is different than the one on prestas.com, but i've also disabled from Tools.php the connection to prestashop.com setting 'is_addons_up = true' to false

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Hi @matteolavaggi,

Have you many products and much data to load?
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i have about 30k product, but a dedicated server powerfull. We use with no problem massive import / edit module for handle 500/1000 product at same time.

Also other section of Backend work with no problem like category and product page (only the save function has problem)

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khouloudbelguith commented Oct 30, 2018

@matteolavaggi, we are aware of this issue and we are working on it.
There's also a fix added in the PS 1.7.3.1: #8871
We will also work to lighten the product page, it will take time.
Now, this issue is in progress, it is assigned to our developer Jocelyn Fournier, he is working on it.
Thanks for your patience #9809
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matteolavaggi commented Oct 30, 2018

Hi dear, so there is any way to fix this on my 1.7.2.4?

The problem i have in the module page is not related to combination i supposed!

Also i've about 10 to 15 sku with combination on 30K catalogue, and issue on saving it happen on all product, not only when work on a combination one.

So i think you are not in the right way to diagnose this problem

@khouloudbelguith
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@matteolavaggi, did you installed any custom module before this issue occurs?

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we setup a cache module, but removed, clean folder and database, clear cache and revert back server to previous, so the issue start before this module installation, we found it because we cant see new order placed by customer :( !

Any idea where to look? this is a redirect problem on the account page

@khouloudbelguith
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@matteolavaggi, have you tried to contact the module author?
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Sorry dear, i've made confusion on 2 issue.

This problem on module page start at the installation of PS and is no related to any of the module we install later, at zer day we start with this problem and not yet found a solution

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khouloudbelguith commented Oct 30, 2018

@matteolavaggi, the mode SSL is enabled in your shop?
In the classes/Tools.php, could you please try to replace

$protocols = array('https');
$end_point = 'api.addons.prestashop.com';

to this

$protocols = array('https');
 $end_point = '91.240.109.18';

Thanks to check & feedback.

@matteolavaggi
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Our store is FULL https, i've change the ip but still same problem.

@khouloudbelguith
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Hi @marionf, I did not manage to reproduce the issue with PS1.7.4.3, PS1.7.3.3.
What do you think?
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@khouloudbelguith khouloudbelguith added Modules catalog Label: Which BO under menu is concerned and removed NMI Status: issue needs more information labels Oct 30, 2018
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marionf commented Oct 30, 2018

I can't reproduce it, performance depends of a lot of things

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@marionf performance? this is not performance! this is a controller / symfony bug big like an house ^^! What kind of performance can take 5 minutes to load a page and make fail to save product? we can sorto 1000 product in back office in 1/2 second, load every other page lightning fast!
What PERFORMANCE ?! There is lot of question around backend module page problem if you google ... We can update just some files ? ... we dont like too much to take all this time spent on report issue that will be closed with "performance depends on lot of things"...

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marionf commented Oct 30, 2018

@jocel1 what do you think ?

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jocel1 commented Oct 30, 2018

according to the description, I would bet it's a session issue where at some point a backoffice page doesn't finish its loading somewhere, and it blockes all other page loading relying on php session (basically all BO pages). We need to fix all the bottleneck which could slow down BO pages, and work on a way to close the user session much (much!) sooner than what we have currently. I'll create a specific ticket for this session issue, my feeling is it's a high priority issue :)

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jocel1 commented Oct 30, 2018

@matteolavaggi FYI I'll try to take a look at the session issue in the upcoming days

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Hi, any update dear on this way? @jocel1

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jocel1 commented Nov 27, 2018

not yet, the session subject is not an easy one

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matteolavaggi commented Nov 27, 2018 via email

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matteolavaggi commented Feb 21, 2019

Still in ToDo :P 4 prestashop installation, different version on different server, all suck opening module page or position hook transplant page ... good job dev team...............................................

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matks commented Feb 25, 2019

Hi there,

Not having an issue fixed immediately (or in a fixed timeframe) does not mean that it won't be fixed, or that we don't care. It doesn't mean that the issue is NOT important either. It just means that other issues have been considered, for whatever reason, more important, so they were (or are being) tackled first. There's an immense amount of work to be done (997 issues right now, and growing!), and tasks take time. And in your case this not something we can easily reproduce, so this is even more complex.

Developer time is limited, so if the amount of issues opened in a certain timeframe exceeds the amount of issues that can be processed using the available developer time, tasks will simply pile up. This is common to ALL projects. Due to the number of pending issues, sometimes they may get lost in the pile and be forgotten about, so it's not a bad idea to ping us there from time to time to give us a kind reminder, even if it's been a long while.

But here's the upside: PrestaShop is an open source, community project. If you find that any issue is critical for you, and it's important to have it fixed ASAP, then you can invest into having it done. You can hire a developer to fix it, or if you are a developer yourself, you can try doing it on your own. The most important thing is to share that fix with everyone by submitting a Pull Request -- that's what the open source spirit is all about.

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The session issue is real, but I'm not sure it's related to the OP's problem. Extreme slowness usually means that the shop cannot access an external resource, and it timeouts.

@matteolavaggi Please verify the following:

  1. Your shop is not set in "dev mode" (it may seem a dumb advice but a lot of people use it in production for some reason)

  2. Your shop server is able to reach the following servers:

    • addons.prestashop.com
    • api-addons.prestashop.com
    • api.prestashop.com
    • help.prestashop.com
    • i18n.prestashop.com
    • profile.prestashop.com

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Hi there,

Not having an issue fixed immediately (or in a fixed timeframe) does not mean that it won't be fixed, or that we don't care. It doesn't mean that the issue is NOT important either. It just means that other issues have been considered, for whatever reason, more important, so they were (or are being) tackled first. There's an immense amount of work to be done (997 issues right now, and growing!), and tasks take time. And in your case this not something we can easily reproduce, so this is even more complex.

Developer time is limited, so if the amount of issues opened in a certain timeframe exceeds the amount of issues that can be processed using the available developer time, tasks will simply pile up. This is common to ALL projects. Due to the number of pending issues, sometimes they may get lost in the pile and be forgotten about, so it's not a bad idea to ping us there from time to time to give us a kind reminder, even if it's been a long while.

But here's the upside: PrestaShop is an open source, community project. If you find that any issue is critical for you, and it's important to have it fixed ASAP, then you can invest into having it done. You can hire a developer to fix it, or if you are a developer yourself, you can try doing it on your own. The most important thing is to share that fix with everyone by submitting a Pull Request -- that's what the open source spirit is all about.

So where prestashop spent all the money they get from addons selling? Not in proeuct develop, not in bug fix... Very bad project hope it will survive next years but i'm not sure. Is one of the most expensive ecommerce platfrom due to module need for every feature, and the bad supported and buggest one ...

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The session issue is real, but I'm not sure it's related to the OP's problem. Extreme slowness usually means that the shop cannot access an external resource, and it timeouts.

@matteolavaggi Please verify the following:

  1. Your shop is not set in "dev mode" (it may seem a dumb advice but a lot of people use it in production for some reason)

  2. Your shop server is able to reach the following servers:

    • addons.prestashop.com
    • api-addons.prestashop.com
    • api.prestashop.com
    • help.prestashop.com
    • i18n.prestashop.com
    • profile.prestashop.com

Dev mode is of, this url can be reached. Only the possibility that closing spammy url to the shop can generate trouble is a good way to evaluate the whole project ... i'm very I'm really sorry to have started 2 projects on prestashop. It is not possible that version 1.7.5 has the same problems as 1.7.1 ... an unusable search for example ... while addons sells thousands of modules a day to solve the lack of basic features for an ecommerce. And the development team consists of 20 people ..

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  • api.prestashop.com THIS can't be pinged from anywhere... italy, uk, france, server, desktop, unix, windows .....

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ttoine commented Feb 25, 2019

If you use 1.7.1, you should test and migrate to 1.7.5, and you will see that developers do their work. Its' faster, more stable, and it has many improvements and features required by the community.

If you compare to other e-commerce software, Prestashop is one of the most complete out of the box. If you need more features, it usually means you have a specific business workflow.

You can actually sell online with a basic Prestashop, a server, a domain name, and a payment solution.

You can also buy a few plugins and a theme, and it will be very, very cheap compared to the cost of custom developments. Because the cost of a module is supported by the many who buy it, you will pay only a small part of the total development price.

You can also consider Prestashop as a component of a complex project, synchronised with ERP, CRM, factory workload, etc. This case can cost a lot,bbut company are doing that because they know they will have a good return on investment.

About Add-ons: most of the money go back to the modules developers. At the end of the month, they pay their bills, and they can continue to develop their modules, support new users, do maintainance, and eventually create new plugins for new features.

Running a Prestashop website is not that expensive, compared to other solutions on the market.

Open source software doesn't mean that everything must be free of charge. Even Richard Stallman sold copies of Emacs to fund the FSF and GNU.

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If you use 1.7.1, you should test and migrate to 1.7.5, and you will see that developers do their work. Its' faster, more stable, and it has many improvements and features required by the community.

If you compare to other e-commerce software, Prestashop is one of the most complete out of the box. If you need more features, it usually means you have a specific business workflow.

You can actually sell online with a basic Prestashop, a server, a domain name, and a payment solution.

You can also buy a few plugins and a theme, and it will be very, very cheap compared to the cost of custom developments. Because the cost of a module is supported by the many who buy it, you will pay only a small part of the total development price.

You can also consider Prestashop as a component of a complex project, synchronised with ERP, CRM, factory workload, etc. This case can cost a lot,bbut company are doing that because they know they will have a good return on investment.

About Add-ons: most of the money go back to the modules developers. At the end of the month, they pay their bills, and they can continue to develop their modules, support new users, do maintainance, and eventually create new plugins for new features.

Running a Prestashop website is not that expensive, compared to other solutions on the market.

Open source software doesn't mean that everything must be free of charge. Even Richard Stallman sold copies of Emacs to fund the FSF and GNU.

This is complete not right. 100% not right.

  1. upgrade a ps installation is impossibile, 1click upgrade not work, manual upgrade not work
  2. ps is th eonly main project with a compelte miss of dev documentation
  3. complete miss for nginx 100% working support (100% mean OUT OF THE BOX, not 5 ours developer work to get 95% working)
  4. Complete miss of basic function, like the search (What ridicoulous is the 1.7.4 search that need to be overriden by 1.7.2 to get sample pertinent result ...?!)
  5. Complete miss of basic function, like a simple sitemap ^^ :P io need to pay for a module that 9 times over 10 has problem with other module
  6. Cache not work from 1.7 to 1.7.5. Problem over problem in configure, update , the page cache itself has bug on configuring server and cache type ^^!
  7. template of classic theme 1.7.4 with piece of code let there with no variable assigned (!!!!)
  8. parts of template that not update changing language on the default theme (other category product, and similar)
  9. backoffice with lot of problem in module page, hook page
  10. category fetch query ORRIBLE, need a 20GB 30CPU dedicated server to perform better

prestashop addons sell huge amount of module compared to other platform, and there are 2 or 3 developers answering 900 issues ^^ ! (900!!!!, many of them present in the last 4 major release)!!!

Ah not last backoffice limited from mobile phone (instead fix bug every new release of PS remove some function to force module buy)... The problem is not PAY for get feature and support, the problem is that the main project has the baddest dev team i've ever seen, and to increase selling rate every release something was removed from the core package ^^ > this result in LOT of third part module > this result in lot of other bug cobined with core bug...

Prestashop project has completely lost the direction. Have you EVER take a look on magento configuration / installation guide and information ?! Compare with the prestashop user guide ...

My prestashop 1.7.2 backoffice crash with less than 400MB of php memory ... 400MB ?!?! really?! This is enought to drive a shuttle from US to MARS...

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ttoine commented Feb 25, 2019

  1. Upgrade works well when shops have not been modified with bad overrides or bad modules. Also, when there are a lot of products, the server must be well configured regarding connection timeouts. But you are right, there are many cases where this is difficult to migrate.
  2. That's not true: https://devdocs.prestashop.com/ and this is not the worst development doc you can find in open source.
  3. like most other PHP CMS, PrestaShop is developed mainly with Apache
  4. did you try in 1.7.5 ?
  5. sitemap is so 2008.... if you link structure is well done, Google tells that sitemap will not really be useful
  6. please open a bug, and it will be checked if your issue can be reproduced
  7. please have a look at 1.7.5, and also to http://github.com/prestashop/classic-rocket
  8. there are known issues with translations, your help is welcome if you know other.
  9. again please open a bug and the team will try to reproduce
  10. it depends also on the number of products you have in your shop. The more you have products, the more you need performance

PrestaShop Addons is quite unique in the CMS world: the main marketplace is operated by the company behind the project. The fact that there are over 900 issues is specific too to the PrestaShop project:

  • other projects often close issues with no activity after some time; we don't, and that's why you can find very old open issues
  • a project with a lot of issues means that there are a lot of active users and that they report even small issues; for shop owners, all issues seems important because there is money involved, but don't forget that's not really the case for a content CMS.
  • a project with no issues doesn't mean that it's stable, it means that there is not a lot of users

the "baddest dev" team you have ever seen. did you actually see them, or meet them? do you really know other dev team ? how could you compare? what is your experience with best practices in collaborative open source software development? if you want to come at the office and meet them, let me know, I can organize that, and I am quite sure you meet awesome people. it's not because you disagree with their priorities that they are bad devs.

Again, please test 1.7.5, item location and other stuff like that are back. And look at the 1.7.6 roadmap, the plan is to introduce back many features and modules required by the community. It is possible, now that the base of the 1.7.x is good enough.

BTW, if you prefer Magento, why are you using PrestaShop? this is a true question, I am really interested to know the answer, that would be an interesting case.

If you are still in 1.7.2, it is really time to migrate to 1.7.5, like many other merchants do. Before 1.7.3, there was some performance issues. It's fixed since 1.7.3 and 1.7.4.

However, again, what is the size of your catalog? How many products and variations? This is a critical information to estimate the need in server performance. (traffic is the second critical information)

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matteolavaggi commented Feb 25, 2019

Dear you write about 10 times 1.7.5, but why dev a 1.7.5 if 1.7.4,1.7.3,1.7.2,1.7.1 still has same bug ?!
Really put a new number rear the version solve customer problem??
Answering a new issue with a NMI is not a problem solve approach! Write better code and robusto upgrade structure is a problem solve approach!

And also you (right) write that this is not the bad open source project, right but this is one of the open soirce project that get MORE money from pay module, and every module installed make another step harder upgrade. So if the company behind the project operate directly the worlds largest marketplace of addons, why there is all these problem? Because the "company" invest 99% of profit in other than in make good, robust, scalable and upgrade proof software!

Still many PS 1.6 on the markem this is crazy ... a seller that must use a 5 years old distribution because the new one is impossible to migrate (and also to operate in mid size ecommerce due to bug) , is a complete failure for a project.

Our catalogue is 65'000 sku, no variations, and we start to have performance isse on backend timeout whe we have 1000 SKU.

Have you ever try to migrate a 1.7.2 to 1.7.5? We have try 5 times in differente way, no one result in working platform. Unaccessible bo and fo ... so "solve" bug in new ecommerce version that are impossibile to update is a good job?

We spent about 3k $ in pay module for every ecommerce we start to manage, plus the hosting cost to handle not good scripting (more power less poblem when scripting is not good). if we compare the price with hosted solution like shopify we cant be happy to have choosen this way.

TODAY prestashop is not update proof, this only limitation make all the work to launch new release not usufull for a merchant. Its not so simple, ok, but i'm sure that prestashop company has lost the way, the last 2 years The commercial management of the last two years is to put on the market new versions that do not FACE and solve the fundamental problems, and to sell as many modules as possible. This does not generate robust software and does not generate loyal customers. Talk about open source when at the end the average life of a release is 12 months (and the bugs are not resolved), and the average expense in modules is $ 3000 for each release ... it's an open source that generates much more cash of a lot of paid software. It would need a much more solid development.
Without making it too long I will repeat that it is CRAZY to have a completely useless search in ps 1.7.4 ... ^^ let's talk about an ecommerce as it does not have a usable search ^^!

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ttoine commented Feb 26, 2019

So, I told you already: the most important budget of the company is dedicated to improve the PrestaShop open source project and to finish the migration to Symfony. However, yes, you are right, there was a lot of things to fix. Most of the important things are fixed, and there is a roadmap to finish in order to ease the migration from 1.6 to 1.7. That's how the energy of the employee is used since 2018.

We have good feedback from people migrating from 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 or 1.6 to 1.7. And of course, it's possible to migrate from any 1.7.x to 1.7.5. But, it some cases (specific modification, overrides, some modules, or very important catalog) the auto-upgrade will not work as expected. This module has been completely rewritten since last summer, if you have a specific issue, please open a bug with details.
Also, please have a look at this documentation, it will help you to choose the right approach for migration your very big catalog:
https://devdocs.prestashop.com/1.7/basics/keeping-up-to-date/

Also, maybe you should contact an agency in your area and get some help? you could save a lot of time, and time is money.

Please compare the pricing for Shopify for such a huge catalog and the features you need: I guess that the cheap starter option will not support your use case. Also, take in account that PrestaShop is open source, so:

  • you can extend and customize in ways that are not possible with a SaaS solution.
  • you are not vendor locked, you can change your hosting, export and import your data, and many more
  • you can fix issues, by yourself or by hiring a developer

Again, all projects have non fixed issues. That's the life of software, open source or closed source. It's just more visible in open source, particularly when a project chose to keep open issues with no recent activity like the PrestaShop project.

I am very surprised that you have to buy again the modules at each release of the PrestaShop project. That's not how it's supposed to work at Addons, except if you want to renew your support when you upgrade.

And no, our project does not generate much more cash that other open source project. You should compare the prices of our competitor with your use case, and the cost of any custom work on any other open source solution. In most cases, buying modules is still cheaper than a week of work from a freelancer or an agency. Please note, that most agencies and freelancers also buy module to save time and money for their customers...

and again, please open an issue about your search issue. is it on the front end on in the back end ?

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to finish the migration to Symfony > from 2 years

There is no ETA available so this is only 900+1 issue taht still open .

Still get a PS solution with much bug than function ^^ and only "NMI" or "TODO" or "ASSIGNED" status to every issue reported .. from a 2 years old release :P !

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I think your problem was is module "Merchant expertise" (native Prestashop) it is calling "gamification" in the modules folder. So by disabling it, everything works fine at the backend.

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